Argument Driven Research

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Search Engines
TheSearchEngineList (comprehensive list of engines by subject or medium)

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• Google
• Google (Advanced)
• Google Books
• Google Scholar
• AllPlus (metasearch, cluster)
• DuckDuckGo (anonymous)
• Mashpedia (real-time encyclopedia)
• Blekko (search with slashtags)
• DeweyDigger (a DDC browse)
• DocJax (search for documents)
• Kngine (semantic search for web and images)
• Secret Search Engine Labs (alternative search results and open algorithm)
• Bing
• Bing Visual Search refine queries through selecting images
• Deeper Web
• Wolfram|Alpha (computational knowledge engine)
• Surchur (for searching social networks & more)
• Goofram (search Google & Wolfram|Alpha together)
• Browsys (search across the search tools)
• Search Cube (visual page search)
• Yebol (semantic search)
• Yahoo!
• Wiki.com (for searching wikispace)
• Twoogle (searches Google and Twitter simultaneously)
• Findhow (How-Tos from Names You Trust)
• Yuil (Cuil with Yahoo-power)
• Buttonall (the Internet's universal remote meta-search)
• Ask.com
• Clusty(clustered search)
• Duck Duck Go
• Leapfish (combines Google, Yahoo!, MSN results)
• AllMyFaves (choose you search tools among a bunch of categorized icons)
• Rollyo
• Kartoo (visual search)
• Twurdy (results ranked by reading level)
• Quintura (Search through tag clouds)
• Kosmix (Results organized by types of Web results--reference, media, conversations, news & blogs)
• Soople (busts out Google's features)
• AltaVista(Advanced),
• Exalead Advanced,
• HotBot,
• Wayback Machine (archived web pages)
• Thumbshot
• Jux2 (compare Google, Yahoo, and MSN with One Search)
• Whonu (contextualizes your search)
• Ms Dewey (a librarian guides your search)
• Boolify Project (an educational boolean search tool, currently in beta)
• SweetSearch (selective searching)
• Pipl (for searching people)
• SocialWhoIs
• Surchur (what's hot on the social web--blogs, twitter, images, video, more)

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Semantic search tools (structured, intelligent results)

• Twine
• Hakia
• TrueKnowledge
• SemantiFind

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Directories

• OpenDirectory
• Google Directory
• Yahoo! Directory
• Best of The Web (BOTW)

Search Tool Ideas

• TrainableSearchTools

Project Resources
OPAC

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Databases
Issues & Controversies
Username - avon

Password - worth


Modern World History Online
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EBSCO Research Databases
Select from several reference, education, news and business databases.

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MLA Style
Purdue OWL (Online Writing Lab)
Purdue OWL MLA Style Guide
General MLA Format
How to Cite a Tweet

**Works Cited Page**

• Works Cited: Books
• Works Cited: Periodicals
• Works Cited: Electronic Sources
• Works Cited: Other Common Sources

In-Text Citations: the Basics

• Formatting Quotations
• Footnotes and Endnotes

Additional Resources for using MLA Style Citations
Abbreviations used in MLA Style Format
Example of a completed MLA Style Works Cited Page
From The OWL at Purdue, an Online Writing Lab created and maintained by the English department at Purdue University

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From the MLA: Modern Language Association

• What is MLA Style?
• Frequently Asked Questions
• Order the MLA Handbook for Writers
• Note about online access to MLA Handbook